Link Roundup – 3 December

UMD community members urge university to increase protections for faculty researchers (November 26)

topics: local, universities, faculty, University of Maryland College Park, UAM-UMD

 

UMD students face rising costs amid financial aid changes (December 2)

topics: local, students, financial aid, University of Maryland College Park

 

Visa canceled at the border, a Hopkins grad student has been stuck in Canada for months (December 1)

topics: Maryland, graduate students, international students, visa revocations, Johns Hopkins University

 

Women’s studies to lose departmental status at Towson University (November 30)

topics: Maryland, universities, Towson University

 

[Georgetown University] Students Stage Sit-In to Protest Proposed Bus Driver Subcontracting Plan (December 2)

topics: regional, students, university employees, collective action, Georgetown University, Georgetown University Transportation Shuttle (GUTS)

 

Why Trump and Harvard Have Not Reached a Deal (December 3)

topics: national, federal funding, universities, Harvard University

 

Harvard Is Rejecting More Tenure Cases After Departments Approve Them (December 3)

topics: national, universities, faculty, tenure, Harvard University

 

Florida unions challenge requirement for public college syllabuses (December 2)

topics: national, universities, faculty, unions, Florida Education Association, United Faculty of Florida, Florida Department of Education

 

‘Because I Said So’: Universities Double Down on Unwritten Policies (October 22)

Texas Tech Puts Its Anti-Trans Rules In Writing (December 2)

topics: national, universities, faculty, actions targeting DEI programs

 

Estimated Decline in New Graduate Physics Program Enrollments, Fall 2025 (December 2)

topics: national, universities, graduate students, international students, enrollment

 

In a Reversal, FEMA Won’t Reinstate Suspended Workers (December 1)

topics: national, federal workers, Federal Emergency Management Agency

 

‘The mission is dead’: Federal workers say the shutdown made an ‘extremely trying year’ worse (December 2)

topics: national, federal workers, government shutdown

 

Federal Data Are Disappearing (November 26)

topics: national, data

 

SEPTA set to resume contract talks with its largest workers union (December 3)

topics: regional, unions, SEPTA, Transport Workers Union Local 234 

 

‘The Pitt’ Production Assistants Unanimously Ratify First Union Contract (December 2)

topics: national, unions, Production Assistants United 

 

Environmental Defense Fund staffers launch union (December 2)

topics: regional, unions, Environmental Defense Fund, EDF Together

 

‘We’re not going anywhere’: how unionization ‘whirlwind’ set stage for historic Starbucks strike (December 2)

topics: national, Starbucks, unions, strikes